Saturday, August 18, 2012

The Mechanics of Cold Brewing Tea

Here's an article I recently wrote for The English Tea Store blog.

The Mechanics of Cold Brewing Tea
By William I. Lengeman III

There are any number of ways to whip up a cup of tea these days, and we’ve commented on several of them in these pages. They range from the tried and true method of heating water with a teakettle (or microwave) and pouring it over a tea bag or loose tea leaves to a high-tech session with one of the many allegedly automatic gadgets that seem to be all the rage these days.

One method that doesn’t seem to get as much attention is cold brewing...